300 FLOWER GARDEN. 



such as Passiflora kermisina, Doliclios llgnosus, Ipo- 

 mcea coccinea, Michauxii, Horsfallige, and rubrocoe- 

 rulea. 



The Plant-Stove may either be a dry-stove or a hark- 

 stove, or both combined; and is applied to the cultiva- 

 tion of tropical plants which require an elevated tem- 

 perature. The dry-stove may be considered as a green- 

 house, having a larger than usual apparatus for the 

 production of heat. The bark-stove is furnished some- 

 what in the manner of a pinery, with a receptacle to 

 contain a bed of fermenting tanners' bark, into which 

 the pots are plunged. In this country, stoves are re- 

 garded as belonging rather to the botanic than to the 

 flower garden : they are extremely useful, however, in 

 the latter ; for, besides presenting the florist with many 

 unusual forms of vegetation, they afi*ord in summer a 

 variety of beautiful plants, which, as they come into 

 bloom, maybe Introduced into the cooler green-house or 

 conservatory, and remain there till the flowering season 

 be over. 



Sometimes the various botanical structures are com- 

 bined into one imposing assemblage, as that exhibited 

 in Fig. 21 ; a being a palm-house, b for New Hol- 

 land plants ; c large green-house, and the intermediate 

 spaces being occupied by dry-stove, heath-house, and 

 green-houses. This mode is, of course, suited only 

 for places of the first order, where splendor is an ob- 

 ject, where everything is on a great scale, and expense 

 little regarded. In a vast proportion of cases economy 

 must be studied ; and in villa gardens the ornamental 

 plant-house is very often attached to the library or the 

 drawing-room, or has a covered communication from 

 these apartments. A good plan for such a glazed house 



